"Wow, it's almost like a huge amount of water washed pushed into the city by strong winds.I'm sorry your shiat got farked up but let's stop with the 20 inch headlines every time you find a light pole knocked down or a flooded parking garage."-Houston, Texas

dothemath:"Wow, it's almost like a huge amount of water washed pushed into the city by strong winds.I'm sorry your shiat got farked up but let's stop with the 20 inch headlines every time you find a light pole knocked down or a flooded parking garage."-Houston, Texas

kvinesknows:why in gods name would people park underground when there is risk of flooding?

This right here. I know parking is gawd-awful expensive and challenging in New York City: but if I lived there and had a car, my first move would have been to get that thing uptown and into an above ground garage.

IMHO any of those people who submit an insurance claim for a flooded car in lower Manhattan should have it denied.

dothemath:"Wow, it's almost like a huge amount of water washed pushed into the city by strong winds.I'm sorry your shiat got farked up but let's stop with the 20 inch headlines every time you find a light pole knocked down or a flooded parking garage."-Houston, Texas

Yeah, but this time the water was pushed into a REAL city, not some podunk town like Houston.

jack21221:dothemath: "Wow, it's almost like a huge amount of water washed pushed into the city by strong winds.I'm sorry your shiat got farked up but let's stop with the 20 inch headlines every time you find a light pole knocked down or a flooded parking garage."-Houston, Texas

Yeah, but this time the water was pushed into a REAL city, not some podunk town like Houston.

Yes, a REAL city that, apparently has never seen a big rainstorm before. I hope the NYT doesn't run out of ink, haha.

mjohnson71:Or, I dunno, maybe moved the cars 20 blocks north and into an above ground parking garage?

/I know: crazy talk.

*shrug* Like I said, I don't think most people understood what this was or what it was going to do. As people have said on other threads, they don't exactly see a lot of this in Manhattan.

Upstate, some people were looking around at 8 PM going "well, where the fark is all the water? I guess nothing happened". They thought it was like a tornado warning, and that it was all supposed to be over in about 15 minutes. There was zero understanding of the dangers pose by sustained winds, etc. Even when it was explained to them, people just didn't 'get' what you were describing to them. To some people, it's not a real thing that can actually happen until they've seen it, and we've certainly heard plenty of quotes from NYC along those lines in the last two days or so. ("I underestimated this, it's way worse than I imagined outside", etc.)

mjohnson71:Or, I dunno, maybe moved the cars 20 blocks north and into an above ground parking garage?

/I know: crazy talk.

...and, for the record, I'd be genuinely surprised if that was an option. Parking is hard enough to come by when underground is an option. I sincerely doubt there is enough above ground parking in Manhattan for all the people who wanted it, so at that point, you're talking about actually leaving the city.

freewill:mjohnson71: Or, I dunno, maybe moved the cars 20 blocks north and into an above ground parking garage?

/I know: crazy talk.

...and, for the record, I'd be genuinely surprised if that was an option. Parking is hard enough to come by when underground is an option. I sincerely doubt there is enough above ground parking in Manhattan for all the people who wanted it, so at that point, you're talking about actually leaving the city.

Hardly. I lived in Chicago for a couple of years and darn well know the challenges of big city parking. I'm sure there were a number of options more uptown and above ground: those people were just being cheap. They probably had already paid monthly parking in those underground garages didn't want to pay again for safer parking.

I knew people in Chicago who thought I was a freak for moving my car to a covered garage when a big ice or snow storm was forecasted.

While I'm not taking away from the destruction in any way, I think that Florida is constructed so that a lot of the damage you see up there wouldn't happen here. Of course if the storm is a Cat 4 or 5, that's a game changer.